“I believe in providing an environment which is challenging. An environment that would ensure they maintain consistency and gets them to understand what their focus points are through a week and enable them to have some self-awareness on what their preparation looks like ultimately when they’re on the field – their reliance in themselves and the six peoples around them.”

He says they have been working closely with the new players to ensure they trust one another when they go in the field on Friday.

Meanwhile, Fiji is pooled with arch-rivals New Zealand, Austral, a and Kenya.

Fiji meets Kenya at 11.37pm on Friday in its opening pool match, they will then play Australia at 5.13pm Saturday before taking on New Zealand at 8.55pm.

The cup quarterfinals start at 2.58pm on Sunday, cup semifinal final begins at 7.41pm and the cup final kicks off at 11pm on Sunday.